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Nov 21, 2020 - 6:08 PM
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DOGBELLE
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Nice! Haunting choice of imagery and music.
thanks for comments
some history
Siúil a Rún
"Siúil a Rún" is a traditional Irish song, sung from the point of view of a woman lamenting a lover who has embarked on a military career, and indicating her willingness to support him. The song has English language verses and an Irish language chorus, a style known as macaronic.
The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. More broadly, the term Wild Geese is used in Irish history to refer to Irish soldiers who left to serve in continental European armies in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.[1]
An earlier exodus in 1690, during the same war, had formed the French Irish Brigade, who are sometimes misdescribed as Wild Geese.
1 By country
1.1 Spanish service
1.2 French service
1.3 Italian service
1.4 Austrian service
1.5 Swedish and Polish service
the Irish also fought in American civil war
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